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West Bank

Ein 'Arik is a small village just west of Ramallah in the West Bank.
Israel-Hamas war
‘No one is helping us’: Palestinians in West Bank barred from Israel face unemployment, financial insecurity
An Israeli flag on the surrounding wall of the West Bank Jewish settlement of Migdalim near the Palestinian town of Nablus, Oct. 25, 2021.
Israel-Hamas war
US places rare visa travel restrictions on Israeli settlers implicated in West Bank violence
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, left, shake hands with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, in Amman, Jordan, Oct. 13, 2023.
Israel-Hamas war
The Palestinian political system needs to be rebuilt on ‘national consensus,’ says political activist
people amid explosion
Israel-Hamas war
A timeline of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict
Rodney Dixon, lawyer for Al Jazeera, third from left, and Lina Abu Akleh, niece of journalist Shireen Abu Akleh, second left, answer questions during a press conference
Conflict & Justice
Al Jazeera wants the ICC to do a ‘thorough and independent’ investigation into Shireen Abu Akleh’s killing
Shireen Abu Akleh, a journalist for Al Jazeera network who was shot and killed in Jenin
Violence
Al Jazeera reporter killed during Israeli raid in West Bank
Palestinian laborers work building new houses in the West Bank Jewish settlement of Bruchin near the Palestinian town of Nablus
Top of The World
Israel approves nearly 3,000 new Jewish settlement homes in the West Bank
US President-elect Joe Biden, left, who was then US Vice President, and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, meet at the presidential compound in Ramallah, West Bank, March 9, 2016.
Human rights
PLO official: Biden is ‘no savior’ for Palestinians but should hold Israel ‘to account’
A child looks out from a door as a Uighur woman walks by
Top of The World
New reports on surveillance, ‘demographic genocide’ of Uighurs; Israel hesitates on annexation; Russian election comes to close
A photo of the West Bank.
Borders
Former US ambassador: Israel would be ‘making itself an international outlaw’ with West Bank annexation
Palestinian residents of the village of Fasayil in the Jordan Valley sit together for an afternoon tea break.
Global Politics
Israeli plans for annexation weigh heavily on Jordan Valley residents
Children play with a wheelbarrow.
Politics
Legal recognition of West Bank settlements could ‘kill off’ hope of two-state solution, says former US ambassador
A room of people seated at a table listen to a speaker. A man stands at a podium at the front, with his back to the camera.
Conflict
Can Toastmasters Ramallah stay politics-free?
A worker prepares lights ahead of Christmas celebrations in the Church of the Nativity in the West Bank city of Bethlehem, Dec. 19, 2017.
Global Politics
Christmas in Bethlehem goes on in the shadow of Trump’s Jerusalem announcement
After her third daughter was born, Faten decided to make sure that her fourth child would be a boy. She says she has a career and a family to take care of. She can't keep getting pregnant over and over again.
Medicine
An Israeli woman traveled to the West Bank so she could be sure she’d have a boy
Muna Assaf has been asking her reporters to talk with people on the street about catcalling. She men do it because they think they have the authority to do it.
Lifestyle
A Palestinian radio station in the West Bank tackles catcalling, divorce and sex
Palestinian Americans wary of statehood bid
Baha Nababta in the Shuafat refugee camp in November 2014. He devoted his life to improving the camp before he was shot to death this year.
Conflict
Baha Nababta wanted to live in a place where the roads were paved and the trash picked up. Then he was murdered.
Novelist Ayelet Waldman and a Palestinian man in Hebron. “For most of my life, I loved Israel, I longed for Israel, I planned to live in Israel,” she says.
Books
Novelist Ayelet Waldman is sending writers to the West Bank to document what they see, 50 years into occupation
A mosque attendant lowers a candelabra into a narrow shaft on the Muslim side of the shrine to an underground cave. It's revered as the place where Muslims and Jews believe Ibrahim, or Abraham, is buried.
Belief
In Hebron, Israelis and Palestinians share a holy site … begrudgingly
The Israelis work on the olive harvest
Media
Occupation, shmoccupation! A defiant settler comic declares Israel isn’t occupying the West Bank
Israeli emergency personnel carry the body of a victim from the scene of an attack at a Jerusalem synagogue on November 18, 2014.
Conflict
Palestinians kill Israeli worshippers during prayers at a Jerusalem synagogue
A sign at the entrance to Giv’at Oz veGa’on, a new outpost established by Israeli settlers in the West Bank in the name of three teenagers killed in June.
Conflict
Jewish settlers establish a new West Bank outpost in the name of the murdered Israeli teens
Conflict
As Gaza burns, some West Bankers are calling for a third intifada
Yehonatan Toker (left) and Hamze Awawde (right) in their kitchen in Washington, DC. Toker, an Israeli, and Awawde, a Palestinian, are in Washington for internships, and they're sharing a house.
Conflict & Justice
In a Washington home, an Israeli man and a Palestinian man are learning to live side-by-side
An Israeli woman holds a sign with images of three missing Israeli teenagers, at a rally in Rabin Square in the coastal city of Tel Aviv June 29, 2014. Israel on Thursday named two Hamas Islamists as leading suspects in the June 12 kidnappings of the thre
Conflict & Justice
Three missing Israeli teens are found dead outside the Palestinian town of Hebron
An Israeli woman holds a sign with images of three missing Israeli teenagers, at a rally in Rabin Square in the coastal city of Tel Aviv June 29, 2014. Israel on Thursday named two Hamas Islamists as leading suspects in the June 12 kidnappings of the thre
Conflict & Justice
Three missing Israeli teens are found dead outside the Palestinian town of Hebron
Orthodox nationalist rabbis lead a protest against rumors that Israel will transfer the site of King David's tomb and Jesus' Last Supper to the Vatican.
Lifestyle & Belief
Some Israeli Jews are not happy about the Pope’s upcoming visit to the Holy Land
Conflict & Justice
In the West Bank, Israeli and Palestinian kids who throw stones face unequal justice
Conflict & Justice
In the West Bank, Israeli and Palestinian kids who throw stones face unequal justice
An Israeli settler tried to steal this mule from the Palestinian village of Luban.
Conflict & Justice
When Israeli settlers attack and steal, Palestinians now have a strategy
An Israeli settler tried to steal this mule from the Palestinian village of Luban.
Conflict & Justice
When Israeli settlers attack and steal, Palestinians now have a strategy
Business, Economics and Jobs
New bus line serves Palestinian workers — but not without controversy
Palestinian protesters take page from Israeli settlers’ book
Israel moves to evict residents of illegal West Bank settlement
Best hope for Palestinian economic growth, a political solution with Israel
Arts, Culture & Media
New Israeli documentary looks at bizarre world of Israeli law in West Bank, other parts of future Palestinian state
Israelis mark two major state holidays this week, including Remembrance Day
Israeli court decision on outpost evacuation could have broad impact
Illegal Israeli settlement faces looming deadline to be vacated
Most Palestinians married to Israelis barred from receiving Israeli citizenship
Shay Charka uses pen to skewer all corners of Israeli society
Environment
Israeli company bringing renewable power to remote, powerless Palestinian villages
Israeli settlers conducting attacks on fellow Israelis, as well as Palestinians
Non-violent resistance in the West Bank
Global Politics
West Bank Israelis Hoping to Woo Obama
Conflict & Justice
Palestinian Cartoonist Mohammad Saba’aneh Jailed (but not Charged) by Israel
Global Politics
New Israeli Bus Lines for Palestinian Workers Bring Both Resentment and Relief
Conflict & Justice
New Class of Israeli Lawmakers Include First Ever Hebron Representative
Conflict & Justice
Palestinians Protest Israeli Settlements with Tents
Global Politics
Israel’s Neighbors Ask What a New Governing Coalition Will Mean for Peace
Global Politics
Is Israel Becoming More Isolated Over Settlements?
Rare Elections in Palestinian West Bank Highlight All-Female Ticket
Conflict & Justice
Palestinian Women No Longer Need Husband’s Permission for a Divorce
Conflict & Justice
Israel Evicts Settlers from Illegal Outpost
Global Politics
The State of the Palestinian Economy
Documentary ‘The Law In These Parts’ Explores Israel’s Legal Framework For Occupied Territories
Lifestyle & Belief
St. George Festival on West Bank Attracts Muslims and Christians
Arts, Culture & Media
Israel Celebrates Remembrance Day
Hamas Green Flag Flying